05-16-2007, 12:36 AM
>>>The quote from Buechner is a good one, and would perhaps apply if there were such a thing as sin (there isn't) and if I was consumed with hatred and anger (I'm not).
Falwell's death is a welcome piece of good news in the unrelenting bleakness of NeoCon Hell all thinking people have been living through for the past six years, and we can only hope that Dick Cheney is not far behind.
PS. Those of us who lived through the 80s and lost friends to AIDS more or less directly because of Falwell's influence on the Reagan administration have a SPECIAL hatred for the man that younger people, I think, do not fully appreciate.
You seem happy to wish death on anyone you disagree with. Is that any better than someone being glad your lost friends are dead?
At any rate, I lived through the 80's and am very sure your PS. is an oversimplification, if not completely untrue.
Along the line of what Kiva has been saying, psychologists long ago observed that emotions affect behavior pervasively. If you carry anger, it affects all your behavior, not just the behavior you decide to let it affect. In other words, you can't just reserve hatred for those who deserve it. It comes out all over the place. Not to mention the effect you have on other people. kj.
Falwell's death is a welcome piece of good news in the unrelenting bleakness of NeoCon Hell all thinking people have been living through for the past six years, and we can only hope that Dick Cheney is not far behind.
PS. Those of us who lived through the 80s and lost friends to AIDS more or less directly because of Falwell's influence on the Reagan administration have a SPECIAL hatred for the man that younger people, I think, do not fully appreciate.
You seem happy to wish death on anyone you disagree with. Is that any better than someone being glad your lost friends are dead?
At any rate, I lived through the 80's and am very sure your PS. is an oversimplification, if not completely untrue.
Along the line of what Kiva has been saying, psychologists long ago observed that emotions affect behavior pervasively. If you carry anger, it affects all your behavior, not just the behavior you decide to let it affect. In other words, you can't just reserve hatred for those who deserve it. It comes out all over the place. Not to mention the effect you have on other people. kj.